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...party overturned a U.S.-Taiwan agreement, just signed in October, lifting a ban imposed in 2003 on U.S. beef parts. The new legislation, passed Tuesday, reinstitutes the ban on the import of beef skull, brains, eyes, spine, intestines and ground beef from places with cases of mad cow disease within the past ten years, which includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Beef Derail U.S.-Taiwan Trade Relations? | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...Though ESPN is still Disney's cash cow, the 3-D channel will carry significant risks. In addition to added production costs, there's a more crucial issue facing ESPN: whether people are ready to fork over big bucks to upgrade their television sets, just for a few good games. Yes, consumers can expect more 3-D content to be rolled out over the next few months. But will there be enough to justify what could be a $4,000 purchase, in a sticky economy, by the time ESPN 3-D launches? Plus, will the consumers who have already dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Sports Fans Watch Games on ESPN in 3-D? | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

Smith’s background further distinguishes him from his Harvard peers. “He’s from a cow ranch in Oklahoma, came out as trans, and is studying religion at Harvard,” says Eva B. Rosenberg ’10, Smith’s girlfriend. “There are a lot of contradictions about him in terms of where he came from...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Ezekiel O. Smith | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Gail Wilensky, a former high-level HHS official under George W. Bush, called the Obama Administration's response "appalling and outrageous and a very good reminder of how hard it is going to be to move to evidence-based medicine whenever it goes against a sacred cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mammogram Melee: How Much Screening Is Best? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...David Brooks and the FMLers might argue, the system we have going doesn’t seem to be doing an optimal job, and it’s certainly running up our texting bills. Out of this frustration emerges the hook up culture, where that old saying about cows and milk has been altered past recognition. “Why marry the cow if you can get the milk for free?” our parents asked. “We know we’re not marrying the cow,” our generation replies...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Who Sank The Courtship? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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